Legal Opinion

Curran v. Department of Justice

District Court, D. Massachusetts

Decided July 21, 1986No. Civ. A. 85-3346-YPublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

YOUNG, District Judge.

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (“the Act”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, as amended, the plaintiff William Curran (“Curran”) seeks access to certain files of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. By letter dated April 1, 1985, Curran requests documents concerning Cyrus and Reza Hashimi, the First Gulf Bank and Trust, and Abolfazl Hanidian, insofar as they relate to (1) the illegal export of military spare parts to Iran, (2) the purported assassination of Ali Akbar Tatatabi in Bethesda, Maryland in 1980, and (3) the then ongoing negotiations over the…

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3Cited by1 opinion

William J. Curran v. Department of JusticeCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1987